The book Don’t Brand My Public Space! is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces.

Isn’t it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the context of a revival of xenophobic propaganda on the one hand and the degradation of places into pure marketing products on the other, it is possible to recognize an increasingly theatrical, unquestioned production of public signs and symbols.

Contributions on the theme by political scientists, designers, and sociologists make reference to the three visual essays that are at the heart of the book: “The Noticeable Absence of a Flag of the Earth” by Ruedi Baur, “Sugar Dictatorship” by Great Nation (Christian Rau und Lukas Weber), and “Marketplace” by Maria Roszkowska.

The book Don’t Brand My Public Space! is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces.

Isn’t it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the context of a revival of xenophobic propaganda on the one hand and the degradation of places into pure marketing products on the other, it is possible to recognize an increasingly theatrical, unquestioned production of public signs and symbols.

Contributions on the theme by political scientists, designers, and sociologists make reference to the three visual essays that are at the heart of the book: “The Noticeable Absence of a Flag of the Earth” by Ruedi Baur, “Sugar Dictatorship” by Great Nation (Christian Rau und Lukas Weber), and “Marketplace” by Maria Roszkowska.

The publication is released in collaboration with Civic City (HEAD Genève) and the research program “Écrire la ville” (Ensadlab, Paris).